So, what else is new? Drudge is reporting a simple one liner from Breitbart that says:
President Barack Obama said Wednesday the United States was to unveil a 400-million-dollar civilian aid package for the Palestinians, as he called the situation in the Gaza Strip “unsustainable.”
I can’t find anything more on the story, but I am guessing this would be the so-called ERMA money that he has at his discretion to use for emergencies. ERMA stands for Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance (the same fund that caused all the confusion beginning January 2009, here, when Obama sent $20 million) and the pot is a cool $200 million or so that he can use kind of like mad-money when the occasion arises. So where $400 million comes from, I guess we will wait and see.
By the way, this is nothing new. Here is a story in 2009 that says we pledged $900 million to the Palestinians.
When we get a press release from the State Department I’ll post it.
By the way, I wonder if anyone has ever figured out the per capita aid going to the Palestinians.